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Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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- council for permission to convert its presenthorse car lines into a first class electric line and for rightof way over such additional streets as would give it a linefrom Fort Leavenworth, on the north of the city, to theSoldiers Home on the south (see map), promising at onceto begin, and as rapidly as possible to construct, such ^£n (Jr, SL BfriPCC To ff£ fft/n,r.
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road, and to equip it with the most improved elec-tric appliances. This request has been denied on theground, mainly, that it might jeopardize the City-Earlecontract. On March 4th last Mayor Hacker and -a. large delega-tion of the city council visited Chicago, and inspected, atPullman, a car exhibited by the Judson people. It wasnot, however, of the threadless screw type, but merelya huge iron tank on wheels, filled with compressed airand driven by small engines. It ran a few times up anddown a bit of track, and the demonstration was transferredto a big dinner at one of the hotels, where, between thepopping of corks, time was found to adopt a set of reso-lutions endorsing the air engine and expressing confidencein the ultimate success of the air motor in Leavenworth. The exhibition at Pullman, however, proved nothing, andcould not be called a test as accepted by street rail-way managers. The confidence which so generally prevailed in Leaven-worth over the future of compressed air in t

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